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Mapmaking as an instrument of empire
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Matthew B. Crawford
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What is "tech"?
Collecting rents by adding friction
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Matthew B. Crawford
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April 2023
What is ideology?
Commitment to abstractions leads to intolerance of reality
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Matthew B. Crawford
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The reality crisis
And how it bears on self-government. A conversation with NS Lyons, author of The Upheaval
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Matthew B. Crawford
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Anatomy of the consensus-borg
How is narrative discipline kept?
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Matthew B. Crawford
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March 2023
Making sense of the DMV experience
How multicultural bureaucracy works under one-party rule in California. Also Brad Pitt.
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Matthew B. Crawford
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February 2023
Automation, anti-humanism, the politics of emergency, the battle of the sexes, the possibility of Christian manliness...
A flurry of engagements
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Matthew B. Crawford
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January 2023
Gratitude and the modern condition
Our obsession with control obscures the goodness of what is given
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Matthew B. Crawford
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Gratitude in a time of apocalypse
A lecture this Monday
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Matthew B. Crawford
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December 2022
Love of one's own
Nationalism expresses longing for civic friendship, not "hatred"
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Matthew B. Crawford
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The levers of social control in our post-democracy
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Matthew B. Crawford
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The origins of the therapeutic state
in a top-down sexual revolution after World War II
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Matthew B. Crawford
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